Anthony Powell Quote

The General, speaking one felt with authority, always insisted that, if you bring off adequate preservation of your personal myth, nothing much else in life matters. It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

Books Do Furnish a Room (1971)

The General, speaking one felt with authority, always insisted that, if you bring off adequate preservation of your personal myth, nothing much else...

The General, speaking one felt with authority, always insisted that, if you bring off adequate preservation of your personal myth, nothing much else...

The General, speaking one felt with authority, always insisted that, if you bring off adequate preservation of your personal myth, nothing much else...

The General, speaking one felt with authority, always insisted that, if you bring off adequate preservation of your personal myth, nothing much else...